SHIFT
Episodes
Feature: 'AI and the Holy Grail of Conservation' from Click Here
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cornell University’s Elephant Listening Project has been trying to get real-time monitoring of the Central African Republic’s forest elephants for...
Oral History: (Ai)ding Cybercrime
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A look at how AI is helping and hurting cybersecurity in this latest installment of our oral history project. We Meet: Palo Alto Networks Chief Prod...
Video Calls in 3D - Hold the Glasses
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, we tour Google's Project Starline at this year's TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. We Meet: Andrew Nartker from Google’s...
Oral History: Making Payments
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The way we pay for things is changing dramatically, and it’s only going to become more invisible and integrated into our experiences going forward—...
Oral History: Changing Our Stories
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AI is being used to write stories that flood the internet with trash and spam, but it can also help journalists tell stories that can be personalized ...
People Think AI Should Credit its Sources
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As more people try ChatGPT and other AI tools, our thoughts about what's fair or what to trust with generative AI are evolving. The Pew Research Cent...
Building Trustworthy AI
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The current AI ecosystem has plenty in common with the early days of the web. So, what have we learned? We Meet: Mark Surman, President of Mozilla...
Our Declining Trust in AI
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our trust in people, government, science and even our trust in technology—we have a lot less trust in all of it than we used to. Our lack of trust m...
Live: Digital Citizens or Digital Subjects?
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Frank McCourt is an American executive and philanthropist. He’s also the author of a new book about the internet, called “Our Biggest Fight: Recla...
Live: Streamlining the Music Industry
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join EngineEars founder Derek "MixedByAli" Ali and EMPIRE founder Ghazi Shami as they deep dive into the convergence of innovation and artistry, discu...
Future of the Internet, Part Two
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this second of a two-part series, we meet people fighting to build an open internet. We Meet: Digital Medusa Founder Farzaneh Badiei Internet S...
Future of the Internet, Part One
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The infrastructure underpinning the internet is increasingly under threat, but how many of us stop to consider how or why the internet works? We Meet...
The New Luddites
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Activists are fighting back against generative AI and reclaiming a misunderstood label in the process, says Brian Merchant in a new piece for The Atla...
Oral History: Generating Tax Advice
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Software can make it easier for people to file their own taxes, but what if you have a question? Would you trust generative AI to give you the answer?...
Live: What’s Your Digital Footprint?
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An analysis by Consumer Reports suggests that every person on Facebook is being monitored by thousands of companies, but new tools and laws are starti...
AI Art Gets a Poison Pill
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artists are starting to use AI to fight back against AI with free tools that let visual artists deter–even poison–AI models that use their work wi...
Unlearning Bad AI Behavior
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new study explores how an AI model that’s been taught to lie might be brought back into line. We Meet: Brown University Professor of Computer Sc...
Oral History: Coding Gets an AI Assistant
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest installment of our oral history project we meet one of the central figures behind generative coding tools. We Meet: GitHub CEO Thomas ...
Oral History: Crafting a National AI Strategy
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest installment of our oral history project we meet one of the key figures behind Rwanda’s national AI policies. We Meet: Esther Kunda, ...
Oral History: Personal Finance Gets Generative
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest installment of our oral history project we meet Ryan Graciano, a co-founder of the personal finance company, Credit Karma. We Meet: Ry...
What to Watch: Tech Trends for 2024
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As this year draws to a close we’re bringing you a look at the tech trends we’ll be watching in 2024. We Meet: Deloitte’s Chief Futurist Mike ...
Breaking Language Barriers with AI
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Language translation increasingly falls to artificial intelligence—but AI still doesn’t speak many of the world’s languages. We Meet: Vasco Pe...
Oral History: Educating Between the Lines
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this third installment of our oral history project we meet a man working to build edtech programs in under-resourced languages for children without...
Live: Delivering Education During Crisis
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Potentially a quarter billion children worldwide lack access to an education. Advances in education tech and AI programs for learning can help student...
Oral History: Symbolic AI is Explainable
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this second installment of our oral history project we meet a man trying to solve AI’s black box problem with symbolic AI, a subfield that commun...
Live: Advancing Digital Equity for Black Communities
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an increasingly digital world, ensuring equitable access to broadband and digital tools has become a pressing societal issue—particularly within ...
Live: Understanding AI Governance
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy officers from Google, Microsoft, Meta and IBM discuss how they approach AI governance before a live audience at the general meeting of the IAP...
Unpacking the Executive Order on AI
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We explore what impact the U.S. President's executive order on artificial intelligence might have as governments across the globe move to regulate AI....
Manufacturing in Space
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The hardest part of making something in space right now might just be getting it back to Earth. A conversation with Quartz’s Tim Fernholz about the ...
Oral History: Airbnb's Party Pooper
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the first installment of our oral history project we meet the woman overseeing Airbnb's efforts to build an anti-party AI system to try to combat f...
Measuring AI's Transparency
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stanford University measured the transparency of top AI foundation models–all failed. The researchers are urging companies to reveal more informatio...
Live: AI Ethics and Geopolitics
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We take you to the heart of New York City’s manufacturing center, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, for a conversation about AI ethics and geopolitics. It’s...
How Police Are Using AI in Rwanda
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We hop into the backseat of a police car and learn how officers in Rwanda have adopted and deployed AI on the streets of its capital city, Kigali. We...
The Commercially-Charged Era of Drone Warfare
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Advances in off the shelf commercial technologies have helped manufacturers build complex war machines at much lower prices. It’s changed how drone ...
Live: Leveraging Soil Complexity
29 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tech companies and investors openly discuss the shifting role of soil in climate-proofing the world’s complex food systems in this live episode tape...
Did the AI Pause Letter Change Anything?
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been six months since an open letter signed by many of the biggest names in AI called for a temporary pause on the development of certain types...
Inside Disney’s AI Dystopia
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Disney’s science-fiction thriller, The Creator, paints a picture of a future world at war—humans vs. artificial intelligence. This episode we meet...
Welcome to SHIFT
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to SHIFT—a new weekly podcast from PRX and the creators of the In Machines We Trust and Future of Everything. Episodes drop September 27th.